Story+2009-10-08+East+Rutherford,+NJ

“Evening, Jersey (crowd cheers) are you ready to help us tear this old girl down? (crowd cheers) are you ready to help us tear this old girl down? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Wrecking Ball”**

“Good evening, brothers and sisters (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here at the wonderful Giants Stadium tonight (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be back home (crowd cheers) now the E Street Band over the past year has travelled and travelled and travelled and played and played and practised and practised just for this night (crowd cheers) right now, and we’ve come here tonight to fulfil our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) that’s right…and tonight we don’t plan just to rock the house but we plan to build a house out of love, out of faith, out of happiness, out of joy, out of the hard times, out of good times, out of Jersey soul (crowd cheers) out of music and out of spirit and out of noise…now, the mighty E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna bring down the power of the music on you…but, New Jersey, we…need… you…to…bring…the…noise! (crowd cheers)…”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“Thank you, thank you, everybody (crowd cheers) oh yeah…thank the Lord for this beautiful night tonight (crowd cheers) ooh…we, uh, when we came to do these five shows we tried to think of something special that we might be able to do for the folks here at home and, uh, oh, a few nights ago we played “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” I think it was Friday (crowd cheers) top to bottom, uh…Saturday we played “Born in the U.S.A” top to bottom (crowd cheers) and, uh, I guess this is the record that really, really kind of brought us here tonight (crowd cheers) I remember when I wrote it I thought, I was trying to create this picture of this one long, sort of summer day and night so, uh…(crowd cheers)…”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Thunder Road”**

“Thank you (crowd cheers) these are the men that made the music along with Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers)…”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day” (following “Jungleland”)**

“Key of “B,” boys, “B”…”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City”**

“Yeah…yes, yes, I wanna thank everyone for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) thank you, thank you, thank you…I wanna thank all our fans from overseas, I see fans from overseas that’ve come a long way to see these shows – yes, we love you, we love you…folks from Italy, Germany…Holland…Hohokus (chuckles) it’s incredible (chuckles) we got some friends in the hall tonight, folks from the New Jersey’s Farmers Against Hunger, New Jersey Farmers Against Hunger harvests fresh produce from local farms and they distribute it to New Jersey’s hungry, each year they provide one and a half million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to those in need right here in the Garden State, New Jersey’s Farmers Against Hunger (crowd cheers) if you see them tonight, give them a hand…also gonna send this one out tonight to all the folks from the Melanoma Fund, this is, uh…I send this one out to Danny! (crowd cheers)…”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Sandy”**

“Little Steven (crowd cheers) the First Lady of the E Street Band, Miss Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) Curt Ramm on the trumpet (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and last but not least (crowd cheers) poet, saxophonist…saxophonist… and I guarantee he’s bigger than Shakespeare…author, Clarence Clemons (crowd cheers)…Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, earth-quaking, law-breaking, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band” and fireworks go off)(crowd cheers)...”
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, middle of “American Land”**

“We got no more (crowd cheers) we got nothing left (crowd cheers) (yelps) wait, I feel, I feel a fifth wind coming on (crowd cheers) I feel it coming on (crowd cheers) help me out…help me out, help me…"
 * 08.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Twist and Shout”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//